The Wobble Hypothesis of Base Pairing

question 102

Multiple Choice

The wobble hypothesis of base pairing

• A) helps explain the specificity of amino acyl-tRNA synthetases.
• B) helps to explain why a tRNA may carry several similar amino acids.
• C) explains why fewer than 61 tRNAs are required to translate the 61 codons for amino acids.
• D) accounts for the redundancy (or degeneracy) of the code.
• E) helps explain the common sequence on the end of all tRNAs.

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